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. ~to extinction. _‘Once again there is a balance of power. The democrat‘¢ naâ€" Ltionsâ€"can show a population and an armed strength almost equal to the koown resources of the Russian war bloc. â€" So long as this balance can be retained there will be peace in the world. The maintenance of strong military forces will be a drain upon our democratic economies, ut the costs of peace are never so h‘gh as the terrible costs of modern war. Behind the protection of the Atlantic Pact the democratic nations can set their minds and proâ€" ductive strengths to furthering the progress of mankind, ‘In the hysterical attacks of native and Russian Commun‘sts upâ€" un the Pact is an allâ€"tooâ€"easily recognizeq reflection of the black days of 1938 and 1939 when Hitler and his crew of wouldâ€"be world fgnhuerers launched their "peace offensives" and flung their wildâ€" iyed charges of "war monger" and "capitalist" aga‘nst men like Winston Churchill who saw so clearly the deadly ambush into which the pecae of the world was heading. "Recently in Toronto‘s Massey Hall, which has provided a rosâ€" trum for many great and patriotic Canadians, Canadian Communâ€" ist termed the Atlgptic Pact a "Suicide Pact‘" which "is s a m s . s in MA a m aatimn y \‘gigning of the Atlantic Pact, by which Britain, United States, nada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and Norâ€" way pledge assistance to one another in the event of attack by an gggressor, will provide the first effective check to the Soviet plan or conquering the world. The pact will do much to revive conâ€" fidence and to reâ€"establish faithâ€"â€"since the end of the war so close lb A sllilb VA AAARA UR _ UA ED t PM € 0 eA e C o i o i barrel of dynamite under the United Nations". The meeting which was chaired by Toronto Alderman Norman Freed, subscribed $745 to the "fight for peace‘", unanimously endorsed a resolution condemning the North Atlantic Pact as a "War Pact‘", and deâ€" manded that the agreement not be signed. The Federal governâ€" ment was to urge the formation of a "Peace through the United Nations instead. In an open letter to the government of Canada, Tim Buck has the ecffrontery to say; "We Communists do not have to answer for our patriotism. We warned the world in the 30‘s of the conseâ€" quences of appeasing Hitler." This from the leader of the party whose Toronto committee passed out sheets, printed surreptitousâ€" ly in wartime (but prior to the German alttack on Russia) to urge Canad‘an soldiers to mutiny against their government in the inâ€" terests of a Communist revolution. . (A copy of aone of these sheets is reproduced on page 36 of "The Communist FThreat. to Canada". President Truman recently referred to native U.S. Communists as "traitors‘". This is the only. suitable word.. Their creed. is international treason, and they are, dangerous. The Atlantic Pact must not become another Maginot Line, behind which the democracies will forget the calibre of the foe which menaces them The Pact offers a way to establish a balance of power, ut a very nrecarious balance. : ~â€" Recent statements by Communist leaders Thorez, Togliatti and others erase any lingering doubts as to their stand in the event of a war between their countries and Russia. â€" Their statements are loaded, with the usual content of Marxist weaselâ€"wording. A much less widely publicized statement by Bulgarian Communist leader Dimitrov before the fifth Bulgarian Comimunist Congress in Sofia, states the official Kremlin view on international revoluâ€" tion much more clearly. The authoritive London Economist rtâ€" ports the statement this way. * voters pig t eventually come to realize that they are out the conâ€" ~ cost involved in taking: their money away mdzmncttbuktothem inordertogive govemmentsthe apâ€" it Etatorship is brutal because it is brittle. It it tan olny break or be broken. It cannot lead its people, it can only 'L_ iss ernocracy on the other hand, is resilent. It bends with aFeaking." It sways to the left or to the right, and returns to the point of normal balance.. ‘It calls for leaders, not drivers, . A free p ‘can be led a greater distance and to greater heights than a slave â€"people can be. Griven, _ y onb en e se en ue n i ies PLEASE SAY "TAXâ€"PAID" INSTEAD OF "FREE" The most popular governmental policies are those which lead large scetions of vaters to believe that they will be given someâ€" thing "free." There is no voteâ€"getting appeal half so potent as : She offer of "free" gommment gifts. mch come in the Iorm ou wnmment @eques e t B is C "@"All Communists should realize the importance of the full coâ€" ordination of the activities of all Communist parties in the worl under the leadership of the Soviet Communist party,. All Comâ€" niunist parties have one common policy and acknowledge the great Soviet Communist party as the leading and guiding party of the international labour movement." â€" Or, as Divitroy has put it better still in a leading article of Deâ€" cember 18th last year. "It should not be forgotten thatâ€"â€"in spite of the fact that the Communist International does not Communist parties in the world form one single Communist front tuunder the direction of the most powerful and most experienced Communist party, the party of Lenin and Stalin;‘ that all,Comâ€" munist parties have one common scient‘fic theory as a guide to their actions=â€"Marxistâ€"Leninism; and that all Communist parties nave one leader and teacher recognized by allâ€"â€"Comrade Stalin." ; It cannot ‘be too often repeated that the Communists do not think in terms of countries or continents or even hemispheres. It is the world which concerns them. They see their movement spreading like growing organisn®â€"â€"or rotâ€"â€"to cover the whole globe. > Here is Lenin himself on this subject. "the victorious proletar‘at o( one countryâ€"â€"after organizing its own socialist production, should stand up against the remaining capitalist world, attracting tC itself the oppressed classes of other countries, raising revolts in countries against the capitalists, in the event of necessity coming out even w‘th armed force against the exploiting classes and their governments." . - f ,. Aild Stalin, who was supposed to believe that Communism was t10t for export. ‘"The g )al is to consolidate the dictatorship of the proietariat in one country using it as a base tor the ovet.hrow of imperialism in other countries." z‘}’imminé, Ontario, Thursday, April 28th, 1949 The Snap Back of Dé The Balance of Power International Treachery iest days. Some of the larger buildâ€" ings were equipped only to burn coal, and most of the householders here had broug‘:t along their coalâ€"burning stoves and ranges, and depended on coal for most of their heating needs. T‘::e coal dealers here, however, yrerd an able and enterprising lot, and usâ€" ually Porcupine managed to have encugh coal to meet the needs. But in 1918 there was a genuine coal famine in the Porcupine. Due to war conditions the Dominâ€" ion Government found it necessary to establish what was in effect the .raâ€" Rioning of anthracite coal. In such cases ti:c practice in general use durâ€" ing the first world war was to appoint a Doaminion controller, with the proâ€" virces each having their own conâ€" trollers, and the municipalit.es ajâ€" point.ing commissioners to carry out the plan of rationing. Usually, this scheme worked well, for it provided for peculiar local conâ€" ditions,‘ leaving the important lozal needs. But, th3ugh the local fuel commisâ€" sioner, Fire Chie Borland, was an ideal mar for the work, ccnditions here were very bad, because the highâ€" er authorities neglected to follow the wel!lâ€"considered advice of the local ecmmi:<sioner. anthracite ccal could be displaced by bituminous coal cr wood, tiis change. should be made. As usual, Fire Chiéf Borland did an able and patriotic pilece of work. If Timmins and trict had received the amount of coal estimated by @Fire Chie.: Borland all would have betn well here, and, if all other Iccalities had been similarily accurate in their estimates, the situaâ€" ticn all over Canada would nave bseen satis actory. ~ Under the fuel control plan, local comm‘ssioners were required to send t%:e Provincial Fuel Controller figures and facts to show the minimum amâ€" cunt cf hard coal that would be esâ€" sential inâ€"each locality. In every case where equipment could be changed over. without prohibitive cost, so that ~The Provincial Fucl Controller, howâ€" ever, wanted to cut, down the limited amount. of anthracite called fcor in this area. FPuel Commissioner Borland, the Timmins Board of Trade, T.mmins Town Council and other bodies made strenuous efforts tc. convince the.Froâ€" vincial Fuel As a matter of fact, they were able to do this, but the locality still was no furtzner ahcad in the matter cf coal, as no shipments of ccal came through here. ished making for her a JOnF PF0H that ‘he pushed the lifttle girl bac} with such force that the main spril ‘ position, wrauped itself ground Jo aren‘t some children bothersome? e es Jum He made inCc :\ neatly every lotéery on which he I all the strangest money making s pirtment waited on, hand and {« ine of the most of men. : ; dged unill one day the fortune te ~come around to visit him. She v her cordiaily and tricd to Other communitiee in the North Land suffered similarly. Cochran:, for example, was allotted only 540 tonq thouga the town‘s electric light plant necded over 609 tons to carry CM. Later on, however, Cochrane did reâ€" ceive 1140 tons of anthracite. Timâ€" minsâ€" and district were allowed to keep on . sufiering in the matter until im 4 9 Te t !"The Thursday Whim upon a time there were two brothers;; and}!'ita may be that t{i{o brothers have existed at other times, although who can be sure anyâ€" thing these days? f # »a af < 42 h d s e n o w o Th a wasaiig, . LGSE J AS 8 5o0 Th 4 Well then, once upon a time there were two brothers. . The M one of the brothers wos Joseph, and the name of the other broth® Joe. _ Strangely encugh,. all similarity between brothers beg® ended with the sameness of their names; and,. after all, who Joseph, elder of the two, decided early in life he would like to J# a watchmakr and,. shortly after leaving school (4.15 p.m.), he himself to a plumber and duly learned that trade. . He earned abouP OÂ¥ 30 xd ie d dn n e Ei O ho sc * P 2 ‘week as an apprentice and managed to set aside enough of the money to finance a correspondence course in watchmaking; (The boy was am id _k- trous}. â€" This pursuit kept him engaged in study almost every ev@aing; and, all things considered, don‘t some people wish they had? NK A; Joe, whose character contrasted with Joseph‘s,. didn‘t even both"g;‘"go- ing to schoeol as a youth. . He remained uneducated, unbiased, handsome and.spoke in a strange tongue flavoured with Gaelic and the bettetfigrds of poor English; yet, if all of us will be frank with our answers, most péoâ€" ple uses poor English doesn‘t we? xi *Â¥ l1‘ /. O 2C c unma1lt. nCt AiAntnrca fif.lldv fl“éflSS' pI€ uZ3 Asllga3033 BM MRA MA M 0 20 7 0 The years went by and Joseph., as a result of intense study supcessâ€" fully completed his correspondence course and was given,. along with his diploma, a letter of introduction to a large watchmaking firm in Switzerâ€" larid, small island in the Dutch East Indies whos? inhabitants are reâ€" nowned for partaking of on intoxicant made from‘ coffee beans. Unâ€" fortunately, Joseph did not have the wherewithal to finance his paggage to Switzerland and so was forced to take a small shop on the outaKiris of town and do his watchmaking on a private basis; and, really, ‘doesn‘t it neatly always happen? Things went differently with Joe. _ A fortune teller taught him to play poker. He made money playing cards and once, while following â€" floating game he met a man who had developed a system for beating chain letters... They developed a friendship of sorts and Joe‘s friend taught Joe haw to write. . They made all sorts of money withâ€"chain letters. Howâ€" ever, it wos not long before Joe met a construction engineer whointroduced him to the po:rsibilities cf Pyramid cliubs. Shortly after this Joc tFsanched out for himself and inside of two years was worth in the neighâ€" borhood of $100,000.00 But aren‘t some prople always broke? ~ _ Joseph worked unrecognized for ten years and then,. by a stroke 8f luck,. was hired by a soft drink firm to construct for them a huge clock which was to be used for advertising purnoses. Joseph worked very hard. ‘But, he deprived himself of sleep and even his always moderate pleasures. Previous to his commission to build the cleck,. Joseah had been a fayâ€" ourite with the children in the ncighborhood due to his making for them dolls and toys of many descriptions. _ But, now he became surly. He had no time for the children and one night,. when a little girl had poked her head in the door of the shop and inquired whether or not Joseph had finâ€" ished making for her a long promised doll,. Joseph fitw into such a rage at ‘he pushed the little girl back from the door.and slammed the door such foree that the main spring of the huge clock came loose from its )8 , wrauped iteelf ground Joseph‘s neck and strangled him; though, ome children bothersome? ered. He made moncy at evcry game he played and won ty lottery on which he held a ticket. . Money came to him frem strangest money making schemes gnd hbe lived in a large duple* mt waited on, hand and foot, by a host of servants. He became est respected of men. He was having a wonderful time inâ€" â€" deed uuill one day the fortune teller who had taught him to play PQ}G' ef around to visit him. She was poor,. old and clothed in rags. . Jos greeted her cordially and tricd to make her welcome in his houte but "“; grown Witer and warped of mind through thinking of his success which | *m '“ m m fi;» a great degree, and demu" by W'm C C 2 c C e c n c nra#wsas" wmtaAare ArP The Days No. 96. â€"When Porcupine roller, howâ€" the limited 1 fcr in this Borland, the‘ e, . T.mmins made ce the.Froâ€" As a matter do this, but irtaer ahcad o shipments rg. the North Cochran2, nly 540 tonq light plant o carry cn. ane did reâ€" ‘acite. Timâ€" allowed to matter until # 8 420 MAE the matte}r of avoiding a fuel shoqtage‘ in Capada. There had been urgent demands as early ‘as 1916 ‘and 1917 fcr the> development of the known peat ‘ields north. of Cochrang., The T.N.O. Railway did a little t«iterprise by‘.., dxpg A. A. Colg, the n‘s emining <nginser. to inâ€" vest.gate. #eport «was favourable, but nothing wagidone. ; | so far as the Govefi'nments were ccncerzrcod nothing was done, in regard to the reported fin jing of hard coal not a great distan 76 from Hailsybury 4s The government, att.it- uds s°emed tb\ ‘be that if thre was really a coal field in the N th the Government would be likely o "take it over. No better idea could have bâ€"en suggested to stop the procedure that wculd have made it plain wheâ€" By J. L. W. rage was maintained against" Controllers. The mfioe_ uscc1 eve: Y. (rcm m Â¥ 3 scap to get the toal cats cddABy» wards Porcupine. When one of the tel:graph wires to tae Boufi‘m hit by lightning and put out cu’: n.sâ€" sicn for a short time, the or was that a telegram from tho local Commissioner to the Puel ’afi?ttgfilu at Tcronto had simply burned ‘Up the wire. â€" Townr ccuncilâ€"and ° j‘o! Trade also k:pt up the P all this may have knpt up lgé persture enough to prevent tfl ggbple {rom freczing to. death ln the fam ne in this cold. ccunt Of csurse, were somg, ‘flghter tcuczes to the heat against. diflmm' ination to, this supposediy “\ydod- kurning‘"‘ country. Right at the ,h*ght cf the Iccal famine, Marshallâ€"Bocleâ€" stone‘s. store w.ndow showed a most provcking display of coal scutt,l:s. coal shovels, and fire irons. When it, _was suggested t cne of the flrm this dsplay might ssem to. be "rubâ€" bing it in," the answer was:. "Why, matter, had the people ~nere failed to show mcrze enterprisc and practical ‘effort evidenced by the Governâ€" ments. The Board of Trade of Timâ€" mins, together with the town council, arrmnd a plan whereby citizens were assured‘. ct socd wosk. The fuel merâ€" . chants were doing a wood job, but the sityuation called for something . more than the ordinary., So many people, whc.hadbeenusmccoalhadhode- pend . on wood ‘for fuel that it was difficult to supply the demand withâ€" out some special arrangsments. The following nctice appear.ng for several weeks in The Porcupine Adâ€" vance explains one of. the special arâ€" rangements made: "WOOD" "Through arrangements made by the Timmins Board of Trade, citizens Of the Town who wish to cut their own wood ‘‘or this winter may be able tC the vmr’ eM Anyone who may thifll mins and the ‘Rréupine too crimination w.thout objéd no!" "It‘s, simply ano .her hint to . the Fuel Contxoller "â€"the answer »continâ€" "We‘ll supply everything . else, if he‘ll simply let the ccal. cgme in here." Postmasicr H. Peters took ~serious ricks to have his joke about the. coal situation. I: the window o. the post office he placed aâ€" piece c.f furnace ccal, tempting ‘boid robbers to smash the window to secure the most covâ€" eted mineral t:en in this landâ€" of gold. Alongzslde" this "practically °xâ€" ‘inct" mineral, there was a card with the words: ’ Pss se "A specimen cf real, genuinge coal â€" very rare â€" worth fabulous prices â€" was actually burned in stovses and furnaces before the Great World War â€" now almost unknown:‘ .‘ ~ The . Governments, toth Dominion and Frovinc‘al, came.in: for. severe criticism ‘in regird to the ipconyenâ€" ience and actual guffering in the North tuorugh the lack ‘of coal.~ It was pointed out that private enterprse had been much more farâ€"sighted in By G. A. Macdonald w 5 s t over, while. cf course, they ose if they failed to find the } . commercial quantities, *Whe Luel situation in the Wititer of *l\ter of o« failed to find the Luel situation in the coal in commercial quantities, while. cJ course, © they would lose if they n C WE n en en +o C oR o assured‘ cof gocd wosk. The fuel merâ€" chants were doing a wood job, but the situation called for someth.ng . more than the ordinary, So many people, whc. had been using coal had to deâ€" pend on woeod ‘forâ€"fuel that it was difficulit to supply the demand wihâ€" out some special arrangements. The following nctice appear.ng for several weeks in The Porcupine Adâ€" vance explains one of the special arâ€" rangements made: "Through arrangements made by the Timmins Board of Trade, citizens of the Town who wish to cut their own wood ‘or this winter may be able to secure a few acres of good standing timbsr in the fire area arcund the town. _ "As in this area allâ€"timber must be cleared off before May Ist, in acâ€" cordance with the regulations regardâ€" ing the protection of the North Land towns from . the \forest fire menace, the .owners will beâ€" willing to allow the cutting of the wood at a low figure per acre. "The: Gavernmpnt has also agreed to refund> all timber dues when tae slash is cleared awey etc. _ "Further particulars may be obâ€" tained from Mr. Fred Hamilton, Monâ€" tained from Mt. Fred Hamilton, Monâ€" eta, Chief Fire Ranger ‘or this district, or from Dr. J. A. McInnis, President of the Timmins Board of TFrade." s To. the ~present time, radio stations in Newfoundland have been identified by calls starting with the letters "VO*. Thus, two of the island stations are VOCM and VONF. It seems probable that at some future meeting *"¢cf tao international ~group ‘which*> controls such matters, the Newfoundland Staâ€" tions will Lkely be included in the same ‘group of call letters as those reserved cLor. Canadian broadcasters In this country the allctted letters are those betwecn CFAA and CKZZ. In addition, by. special arrangement,. staâ€" tions owned and opsrated by the Canâ€" adian Broadcasting Corporation are nllowed to use the letters "CB" as the on c _ 18 B1 2e PC on 6 d e first two in their varicus identificaâ€" tions. In the United States, where the first letters in all calls are "K" or "W"‘. it will be found,, as A general rule, that most the. "W" stations areâ€"located in the East, and most of the "K" stations west of the Mississâ€" ippi. Bermuda stations ‘are identifiâ€" by. â€"the prefix "2"; Trinidad brcadcasters use the letter "T"as t:ie first in their identifying: calls., of their home towns. Members Oof Parliament, tco, are broadcasting reâ€" morts :rom Ottawa to their home conâ€" stituencies. The latter are recorded in a special studio in the Capital City and are sent by transcription to staâ€" fions across the country. Quite number cf members of ti:e Dominion House also keep their constituents adâ€" vised on Ottawa topics by a regular news letter printed in the local weekly papers published within their ridings. .~Mayors â€"of some Canadian .communâ€" ities are using the radio to make reâ€" ular weekly reports to the citizens One of the rumors being heard in the larger American cities these days suggests that magazine publishers may be worried by the competition they may have to face froem television. Telâ€" evision. it is claimed. has the: advantâ€" c B S t V AQJAVALe _ M k M M M e es ago of showing products in Aactual use, which is said to more effective than the almostâ€"lifelike illustrations, in full colour, which are the feature of ‘presentâ€"day magazines. The fear is likely not too well foudned, for milâ€" lions of people read magazines, while only a ZTew thousand see telovision. Similar rumors were prevalent in the early days of radio; they have not materialized, even after 25 years. The annual reâ€"shuffling of radio proâ€" grams is not far distant. It will come when daylight saving time goes into eflect in most of the larger centres across the North American continent There was a time when it was genâ€" erally acknowledged that people pret. ty wel‘ quit listening to the radio when tho "summer season"‘ arrived. More recently, it has been proven that such i~ not the case, for car radios and porâ€" table sets have kept listeners provided with radio entertainment even though they have not remained in their homes. Nevertheless, there is still a consiâ€" deratle amount of confusion every year when radio goes on "fast time". For . several days folks wonder wheâ€" ther a program they regularly listen to will be heard an hour earlier, or an hour later than usual. . Some of their shows are missing from the air: other programs are switched to. digerent timezs to fill out the day‘s schedule. "Kilocycling . with Mike" B eay A kid‘s love for a wideâ€"eyed doll and the yearning of the devout for infortâ€" ing prayer, even in moments other than thése holy days, should be immune from the international shenanigans of Communist operators. B But neither the young nor the worshipping are exempt from leftiâ€"t weltâ€" politik. They are exploited to make a buck for the "cause," as today‘s unâ€" holy tale will quickly prove. .â€" Let me pick this story up for as a letter is laid on Secretary of State Acheâ€" son‘s desk (a week ago). â€" A letter, oddly enough, from the CIO Playthings, Jewelry and Novelty Workers whose leaders had a weird story to tell. For a year they had been counting imports from Czechoslovakia forcedâ€"laâ€" bor factories and now were able to report that _the (Eommunists had been _______ bor factories and now were able to report that the Communists had been flooding America with mmio‘ns of art‘icl of religious devotion. @ $ O: these imports, over 1,250,000 were rosaries, skillfully and anonymously poured into the U.S. Religious buyers have had no idea they were subsidizing the regime set up a year ago by the first successful revolt of speciallyâ€"trained and secretlyâ€"armed Stalinist Action Committees. At a strategic moment in February, 1948, these committees streamed out of the very factories which toâ€" day produce these objects. * ie The travelling Action Committees not only seized Czechoslovakia,. but laâ€" ter were shifted into Austria, where they now await the signal for similar ...... 1+ . Thas alea clinnad intn HUugarvy_ There they helped "keep order‘" "'i’h'e- vt;;\'/;ll'i'xv{g"AvcHdfi Committees not only seized Czechoslovakia,. but laâ€" ter were shifted into Austria, where they now await the signal for similar assauits They also slipped into Hugary. There they helped "keep order" during dinal Mindszenty‘s "trial". e ironâ€"ucurtain Reds need U.S. dollars for food and machinery,.. s0 Now they set aside huge plants_qu: u}e manufacture of articlés of devotion for sale to unsuspecting American Catholics. Czech Commuinist industrial Commissars ordered also the constructiOon of large new jewelry factories, to flood us with bracelets, ‘brooches, clips and other such items, on which profit in American currency is large. P And from Hyman Powell‘s AFL International Jewelry Workers, which unâ€" ionizes U.S. toy manufacturers, it is learned that these special Czech .plants turning cut dolls which they hope you‘ll buy for your youngsters next Christmas. W i i w22 2 242 y e e PP 0 +405 4 _A Unions there have been reduced to registration headquariers, .. Je JiVve and sixâ€"day week have been wiped out and with them went the eightâ€"hour day. In their place are slave camps, officially and publicly established some 10 months ago by the Communist regime. i - To these camps are sent "work shirkers‘" and "disrupters‘". Our own U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the meaning of these terms. "So illâ€"defined and so sweeping it appears they may be applied to anyone whose political and economic charocter is not acceptable to theâ€"(Communist) government." ' Â¥ If you do,. there may well ha the tears doll‘s garmentsâ€"â€"for there no longer is fret In his letter to Acheson, the CIO union chief, Tony Esposito, said: . ". . ‘The jewelry trade has been one of the first to feel the ql} ‘t“r the growing recession and unemployment which is now genera_l.. #{BLangoâ€"scale layoffs, a phenomenon not sgen since before the war, have again _bccomc comâ€" monplace." C n o cb a F4 3 e t § e hy es t e LCA it ies T 14 A 4A NZ A A }J A CA Ne Le e ". ._.The Czechoslovakia of today is not the government with which trade agreements were originally negotiated. I believe there must be some adminâ€" i~trative remedy. . ." < ioi If thre isn‘t, we might as well package our folding money and send it to Moscow direct. We‘ll save them the trouble and curselves the embar;e!ssment of the stupid And they‘ve gotten them,. without a fight, without much man ement reâ€" sistance. â€" The fact is that in 98 per cent of the union contracts s'?‘?ned in the pact six weeks,. the working guy has won an average raise of from $3.20 to $4.80 cents a week depending on the area and industry. 4 ud ts # Private and unpublished government surveys disclose that tfie"‘éontracts fall into three groupsâ€"â€"those with eight, ten and twelve cents an hOour increase. In other words, the only difference between 1948 and 1949 is that the raises are lower this year than in the third round, Where the average raise last year for all industry was about $4.50 a week, this year it‘s clover to $3.35 a week. _ But one thing is certain: hourly wage rates have continued to go upâ€"â€" and without too much bickering on either side. A o# o0 t l o e s i M n U Te io uic e en e on _ Within three weeks the steel union‘s national bargaining conference will meet in Pittsburgh,. probably the first week in May. that time Stecl Workers‘ chief Phil Murray will ask big and little steel for su stanial inâ€" crease in addition t owelfare benefits!. A 4 Â¥] o o e m e s ie t e m an 4 in WX P more comfortably dqilill WiiLllVuUuL ;J Al2GLGAL _ P Ar SR t t e e e e oo And they‘ll continue to rise, ;tviet;éf-througfiout the spring and summer as war contracts are poured intec the big industrial cities by Washington:. HEARD ON THIS BEAT: ON DBLAL. 4 Out of last weekâ€"end‘s quiet unreported Chicago conferences of labor chie!s who once were Franklin Roosevelt‘s personal powerhouses has come a plan "or political invasion of the South to smash the old Dixie political leaders by welding a block of 2,000,000 new Negro voters. Thi~ will require energetic districtâ€"byâ€"distriet organizing in Southern cities But the labor leaders, a coalition of powerful AFL and CIO men including Rill Green, David Dubinsky, Walter Reuther and national CIO secrctaray Jim Carey are ready to lay it on the Masonâ€"Dixon line in an effort to get the Negroes‘ and low income white folk‘s poll taxes paid up and voles for New Deal or Fair Deal candidates lined up for 1950‘s Congressional poll. . . @ # The Army‘s old walkieâ€"talkie gadget is going into politiecs. . Now that the Federal Comunication Commission has set June 1 as the date after which civâ€" ilians can buy and use these small portable broadcasting and receiving sets.. the CIO‘s political action committee this week alerted its field mmen to ecxaâ€" mine possible use of the walkie talkie for instructions to doorbell ringers on registration and election days, when the big squads are out. . . f 9 € @ Beca Broadway playwrignt Lillian Hellman is soliciting funds from businessmen to pay the bills for dispatching proâ€"Communist ‘"peace and cultural" front organizers "to every section of the country"‘ to "mobilize millions of Ameriâ€" cans in a roll call for peace." T his roll call will be in the form ol a mu‘tiâ€" million signature petition to Mr.: Truman. . ‘The final showdown on whether CIO chief Phil Murray has the power to suspend unions which defvy national CIO policy will com» at the longâ€"postponed end of May CIO executive board sersion. CIO‘s Communist unions again are ready to bolt and set up their own federation if Murray tries to discipline them for their nose thumbing ol CIO national convention decisions. . . s @ % Sweetâ€"â€"forâ€"theâ€"sourâ€"dept.:~â€"â€"Virtually driven out of New York by collapss of the United Mine Workers‘ taxi strike,. John Lewis‘ District 50 has just signâ€" ed un a small Pineville, Ky., candy store called the Sweet Shop. . Also. Lwis lieutenants are now glad to be able to boast that they organized 21 small resâ€" taurants in Charlaston, W.Va. _ All by way of explaining where the huge :ums i: c o ts s N 2 _ Tss L came -'lmn "A h’m‘ Sweetâ€"â€"forâ€"theâ€"sourâ€"dept.:~â€"Virtually driven out of New York by collapss of the United Mine Workers‘ taxi strike,. John Lewis‘ District 50 has just signâ€" ed un a small Pineville, Ky., candy store called the Sweet Shop. . Also. I sw 1s lieutenants are now glad to be able to boast that they organized 21 small resâ€" taurants in Charlaston, W.Va. _ All by way of explaining where the huge :ums 6f miners‘ dues g0. . And while trey‘re explaining. hâ€"w about JOMn L. himâ€" self telling us why coal union local presidents in Whteling.. W.Va.: Benwood, W.NVa.: Yorkville, Ohic, and Martins Ferry, O.. have joined with Communist union chicfs in blasting the Atlantic Pact? > â€"‘‘Inside I.abour 1“-«}' by Victor Riesel ell ti2 the tears of many a Czech worker on the no longer is free labor in Czechoslovakia. reduced to registration headquarters. The five ellman is soliciting funds from businessmen proâ€"Communist ‘"peace and cultural" froni 1e country‘‘ to "mobilize millions of Ameriâ€" his roll call will be in the form of a mu‘tiâ€" Truman. . .The final showdown on w aether ower to suspend unions which defy national